Letter: Tables turned on Valentine's Day

What was there about Valentine's Day that affected your two Op-Ed columnists? George Will, with whom I always disagree, wrote a sensible condemnation of our corrupt banking system. And Richard Cohen, with whom I usually agree, published a monumentally senseless demand that President Obama plunge America into the quicksand of the Syrian civil war.

Will's career has been one long criticism of our government for growing too large, but suddenly he admits that it is our banking system that has become monstrously huge, and which has become addicted to lying to the American public.

As for Cohen, who can usually be trusted to depict what is really going on, he accuses Obama of lacking "any sense of moral urgency" for not intruding into the Syrian quagmire -- as if our disastrous involvement in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq has not drained us of oceans of our soldiers' blood and squandered incalculable wealth, which has led to our current economic crisis. Will the Arab and Muslim world really thank us even if we succeed in bringing about the regime change that is their responsibility?